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Fundrace.org has this extremely cool political contribution search engine that will let you see which of your neighbors are giving money to which presidential candidates. To this, my mother says: “it’s nice to see that our neighbors have so much disposable income.”

“Disposable, indeed,” I say.

I was fairly unsurprised by the political-donation demographics of my parents’ neighborhood. I had no idea, though, that my neighborhood was composed solely of such hard-core syndicalists and falangists. Hopefully, Otto doesn’t play with any dogs that espouse such fringe views. That could dramatically lower the quality of our dinner-table conversation if the little fellow decides he’s in favor of either Spanish-style fascism or of the violent overthrow of the machinery of capitalism. It was bad enough when he discovered that he liked to eat butter.

I’m currently listening to K466 in A Minor (orig. F Minor) Andante Moderato from the album “Scarlatti 15 – Sonatas for Two Guitars” by Domenico Scarlatti